Even a common jackal-trap would hold a leopard, provided the chain was fastened to an elastic bough, so that it would yield slightly to his spring; but if it were secured to a post, or to anything that would enable him to get a dead pull against it, something would most likely give way.

I have constantly set these traps for them, but always without success, as some other kind of vermin is nearly certain to spring the trap before the chetah's arrival.

Among the variety of small animals thus caught I have frequently taken the civet cat.

This is a very pretty arid curious creature, about forty inches long from nose to tip of tail.

The fur is ash-gray, mottled with black spots, and the tail is divided by numerous black rings.